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Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems (Cenoli)

Faculty of Applied Sciences | Discipline: Chemistry and materials

Faculty of Sciences | Physics

(Code: ULB164)

► Fundamental problems in complex systems research

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Topics of current interest include symbolic dynamics, complex systems as information generators or information processors and a dynamical approach to i ...

► Spatio-temporal organization

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Topics of interest include far-from-equilibrium physico-chemical systems, symmetry breaking bifurcations, stationary or time-dependent dissipative stru ...

► Heat and mass transfer through fluid interfaces

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Hydrodynamic instabilities induced by surface tension effects, Marangoni-Bénard convection, interfacial instabilities by evaporation of volatile liqui ...

► Nonlinear dynamics of interfacial instabilities

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Convection patterns and waves at interfaces, nonlinear evolution equation, weakly and strongly nonlinear regimes.

► Complex fluid flows

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Multiphasic fluid flows. Influence of gravity and electric charges on mass and heat transfers in liquids and at interfaces. Thermocapillary flows, hydr ...

► Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and transport theory

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We study the emergence of transport processes such as diffusion, viscosity, or heat conduction from the microscopic motion of the atoms and molecules c ...

► Complex quantum systems

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The origin of relaxation, decoherence, transport, and stochastic processes in quantum systems in contact with external reservoirs is addressed along wi ...

► Nonequilibrium thermodynamics, fluctuation theory and stochastic processes

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Fluctuations around nonequilibrium states. Thermodynamic and stochastic approaches to the origin of the time asymmetry in nonequilibrium systems and th ...

► Non-classical nucleation theory

Autres fonds publics belges.

Nucleation of crystals is studied in large classes of materials presenting intermediate metastable phases such as colloids, proteins or zeolites. Using ...

► Nonequilibrium physics in nanosciences, chemical physics, biophysics, surface science and heterogeneous catalysis

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The methods developed in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the theory of nonequilibrium stochastic processes are applied to selected mesoscopic  ...

► Computational statistical physics

Actions concertées - Autres U.E..

Molecular dynamics. Stochastic simulations. Mesoscale thermodynamics.  Modeling and theory of polymer systems.

► Theoretical and computational biology

Autres U.E. - Fonds propres (patrimoine).

Generic properties of regulation mechanisms in biology. Immune and genetic regulatory networks.

► Behavioral biology

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Organization of animal societies. Experiment and modeling of collective behaviors. Societies of robots. Mixed societies of animals-robots.